Effective Communication and Presentation Skills

Assignment

1. Assignment 1 (Email Writing) (5%)

Submission date: 1 March 2022

Write a short email to your colleagues to update them about a department meeting. The
department meeting is focussed on increasing sales for a new smartphone.

Before you write the email, use the 5W-H Plan for Writing.

Topic: Subject

Who? Intended Audience

Sales team / dept

Title

What? Communication intent / purpose

Where? Venue? Location

When? Time

Why? Rationale for meeting / reasons for organising

the meeting

How?

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 Assignment 1 Marking Rubric

Content of email 50 marks

Language presentation 30 marks

Organisation (date, salutation)/ Format /layout 20 marks

Total 100 marks

Submission dates for Assignment 1:

- Submit to the BlackBoard

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2. Assignment 2 (Business letter) (5%)

You are the Purchase Manager of a semi-conductor company – M/s Toshiba Electronics Asia
(Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Address: 20 Pasir Panjang Road, #12-25/28 Mapletree Business City, 117440

You had ordered 5 wooden cabinets from Brent Furnishing for your company last week.
Your office got the order but 3 of the wooden cabinets were damaged, the locks were
broken and were not fixed properly.

Write a complaint letter of around 150 words to the Sales Manager of Brent Furnishing, 317
Alexandra Rd, Singapore 159965 informing him about the damaged wooden cabinets. Also
ask him to replace the damaged wooden cabinets with new ones.

Assignment 2 Marking Rubric

Content of letter 50 marks

Language presentation 30 marks

Organisation (date, salutation) / Format/

20 marks
Layout

Total 100 marks

- Submission date for Assignment 2 : 22 March 22

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3. Presentation (Group work) (20%)

In group of 4, prepare a 5-minute power point presentation with accompanying video on

any topic related to communication. These may include
a) The process of communication
b) Verbal and non-verbal communication
- dress, body language,
c) cross cultural communication
- stereotyping
- technology in communication
d) barriers in communication
- euphemism
Use of language
The presentation must be recorded. Students must be seen in the recording (it cannot be
voice only) and then present a brief introduction of the video to the class on 29 March 2022.

Length of presentation: 5 minutes (video format) OR an online presentation in class

Define the key concepts
Evidence – news article, clippings from film or advertisement
Further instructions:
# presenter must be seen clearly in the video
# please type in your name/ class on the video. The video must come with a text to indicate
your name/ index no / Class
# One video per slide. Do not put all the videos of the presenters into one slide

Presentation Marking Rubric

Content of presentation 50 marks

Visual appeals 20 marks

Delivery (voice projection, eye contact)

20 marks
Individual

Process Marks 10 marks

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Total 100 marks

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4. Class Participation (10%)

Breakdown of marks:

2 written assignments(10%)

Group presentation (20%)

100%

Class Participation (10%)

Class Test (60%)

Class Test / Exam (online): 11 October 21

a) 20 MCQ

b) 15 fill-in-the blank questions

c) essay / email writing / letter writing

Trial Test on 14 Sept

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